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Urban Places, Rural Spaces
Photo credit: Robert LlewellynI stopped by the Urban places, Rural Spaces exhibit at the Charlottesville Community Design Center on the Downtown Mall. Very nice.The exhibit demonstrates how creating vibrant urban areas and protecting beautiful and...
Remembering "Busytown"
Herein, your humble author engages in an amateur childhood psychology self-diagnosis ...While drinking my morning cup of coffee today, I suddenly had a flashback of all sorts of different animals dressed in human clothing bustling around a cartoon...
Many uses of public space
I pulled this picture out of some old photos in my iphoto library. It's of a plaza in el peatonal, a network of pedestrian streets in the heart of downtown Cordoba, Argentina.When William H. Whyte embarked on a mission to record the regular use of...
The Beatles teach pedestrian safety
When in a group, proceed one at a time. While common social mores may lead certain groups to walk side-by-side in order to converse more effectively, this is actually the most dangerous formation possible. Instead one person ought to cross, with...
Two innovative policies from Charleston and Savannah
As I mentioned before, I've just returned from a reconnaissance mission (ok, more of a vacation) in two great southern cities, Charleston and Savannah. I'd like to share two interesting policies these towns have initiated, in order to deal with...
Adolfo Carrión in charge of urban affairs
Obama has selected Adolfo Carrión Jr. as the director of his new Office of Urban Affairs. Carrión is currently serving as president of the Bronx Borough in New York City, and he has a host of interesting experiences in his biography. He is trained...
A century of growth in Charlottesville-Albemarle
I thought this U.S. Census data of all of the counties in the Thomas Jefferson Planning District tell and interesting story of the last century. I've matched the growth trends up with certain events that may help put the population characteristics...
